Revista de saúde pública
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Revista de saúde pública · Aug 2007
[Income, food prices, and participation of fruit and vegetables in the diet].
To analyze the influence of income and food prices on household consumption of fruit and vegetables. ⋯ A reduction in the price of fruit and vegetables, which can be achieved by means of public policies, could lead to an increase in fruit and vegetable intake in households in São Paulo and in other cities with similar scenarios.
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Revista de saúde pública · Aug 2007
[Fluoride concentrations in typical Brazilian foods and in infant foods].
To determine fluoride concentrations in the typical Brazilian meal (rice with beans) and in processed infant foods, and to estimate their contribution towards dental fluorosis. ⋯ The typical Brazilian food, even when prepared with fluoridated water, is safer in terms of the risk of dental fluorosis than are some processed infant foods.
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Long-term care facilities for the elderly have regularly to work together with general hospitals to provide care to acutely ill residents or when they require all together more complex diagnostic procedures and multi-specialty care. The decision to hospitalize a nursing home elderly resident is multifactorial and it is based on factors such as illness severity and care facility infrastructure. ⋯ This study aimed at addressing specific aspects of assessment, treatment and management of nursing home elderly who require to be hospitalized, especially focusing on their effective care. Common conditions such delirium, iatrogenic diseases, poor nutrition, functional decline, hospice care and special characteristics of nursing home elderly during their admission to general hospitals are discussed.
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Revista de saúde pública · Oct 2006
Biography Historical Article Classical Article[A one semester course in public health: various considerations. 1975].
Problems referring to the School curriculum of graduates in Public Health are discussed, and a programme for a one semester course is presented, in order to shorten this preparation.
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Revista de saúde pública · Aug 2006
Ethical dilemmas in scientific publication: pitfalls and solutions for editors.
Editors of scientific journals need to be conversant with the mechanisms by which scientific misconduct is amplified by publication practices. This paper provides definitions, ways to document the extent of the problem, and examples of editorial attempts to counter fraud. Fabrication, falsification, duplication, ghost authorship, gift authorship, lack of ethics approval, non-disclosure, 'salami' publication, conflicts of interest, auto-citation, duplicate submission, duplicate publications, and plagiarism are common problems. ⋯ Editors also can be admonished by their peers for failure to investigate suspected misconduct, failure to retract when indicated, and failure to abide voluntarily by the six main sources of relevant international guidelines on research, its reporting and editorial practice. Editors are in a good position to promulgate reasonable standards of practice, and can start by using consensus guidelines on publication ethics to state explicitly how their journals function. Reviewers, editors, authors and readers all then have a better chance to understand, and abide by, the rules of publishing.